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Site to site iPSec VPN with two BR500 VPN router
Need help! We're an elementary non-profit school with 2 small campuses. We have been using Netgear SRX5308 router in one campus and a Netgear BR500 router on the other campus. It has been running fin...
You may want to downgrade the firmware to an earlier version in order to isolate the problem. Just be reminded that downgrading the firmware will not have the enhancements and bug fixes of the later (or latest) firmware version.
You can check the older BR500 firmware version here.
If ever you are not yet aware as this might be related with the VPN issue you encountered, let me share the article below:
Security Advisory for Multiple Security Vulnerabilities on BR200 and BR500, PSV-2021-0286
Regards,DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Kindly check the article below and use it as your guide:
How do I set up a site-to-site IPSec VPN on my NETGEAR BR500 Business Router?
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
DaneA,
I read through the entire manual section of the Netgear BR500 IPSec VPN set up section and also looked at that KB article you suggested. Everything matched between the two BR500 routers and I double checked a few times already to make sure I didn't miss anything. With the BR500 IPSec settings previously worked with the Netgear SRX 5308 router which I copied to the second BR500, it should then worked, but it didn't. Changing to the default IPSec VPN settings suggested by the manual which is basically the same as the KB article but it still did not work...
Did anyone have similar experience or have two BR500 working site to site in a IPSec VPN connection? I would appreciate sharing with me what you have/configure to get it working.
Thank you for the help.
Sun
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